{"id":121380,"date":"2020-11-30T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/random_this_tragic_tale_proves_you_should_never_assume_your_parents_will_store_your_gaming_crap_forever"},"modified":"2020-11-30T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T16:15:00","slug":"random-this-tragic-tale-proves-you-should-never-assume-your-parents-will-store-your-gaming-crap-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/30\/random-this-tragic-tale-proves-you-should-never-assume-your-parents-will-store-your-gaming-crap-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: This Tragic Tale Proves You Should Never Assume Your Parents Will Store Your Gaming Crap Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you’re old enough to have left the bosom of your parent’s home then you’ll no doubt be aware of a tradition that has been handed down from generation to generation \u2013 the unspoken but mutually understood rule that the outgoing child is able to leave belongings in the family home for years, if not decades, later.<\/p>\n

However, for one individual, it would seem that his mother didn’t get the memo. According to Twitter user @jnlgame<\/a> \u2013 which is an account connected to a New York game store \u2013 over 500 games (many of which were sealed) were dumped, as well as “my Ataris, Coleco, Intelli, Famicom, S Famicom, TGfx, PCE, NG AES, MegaDrive, Master System, basically every system and game I never took with me.”<\/p>\n

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The games had been left in storage at the mother’s home<\/a>, and she binned them<\/a> as she did not realise that they were still wanted.<\/p>\n

The estimated damage? $500,000, and that’s just in terms of video games and video game hardware. She also dumped musical instruments, skateboards, Magic the Gathering cards and comics in a purge which, the Twitter user said, could cause them to “jump off a roof before the end of the night.”<\/p>\n

The moral of this story? Make sure you make it plain to your parents that your dusty old games consoles are valuable \u2013 or, alternatively, get that crap off their property as soon as humanly possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re old enough to have left the bosom of your parent’s home then you’ll no doubt be aware of a tradition that has been handed down from generation to generation \u2013 the unspoken but mutually understood rule that the outgoing child is able to leave belongings in the family home for years, if not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}